29.981, Calls: Computational Linguistics, General Linguistics, Psycholinguistics, Neurolinguistics, Cognitive Science, Language Acquisition / Language and Cognition (Jrnl)

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Date: Mon, 05 Mar 2018 12:53:48
From: Mark Dingemanse [mark.dingemanse at mpi.nl]
Subject: Computational Linguistics, General Linguistics, Psycholinguistics, Neurolinguistics, Cognitive Science, Language Acquisition / Language and Cognition (Jrnl)

 
Full Title: Language and Cognition 


Linguistic Field(s): Cognitive Science; Computational Linguistics; General Linguistics; Language Acquisition; Neurolinguistics; Psycholinguistics 

Call Deadline: 01-Apr-2018 

Submissions are being sought for a special issue of Language and Cognition on
Experimental approaches to iconicity in language. We welcome submissions
related to any aspect of the many forms and functions of iconicity in natural
language. Papers may feature new experimental findings, or may present novel
theoretical syntheses of experimental work on iconicity in language.
Manuscripts should be a maximum of 8,000 words, with shorter submissions
preferred.

Many researchers in language and cognition now recognize that iconicity -
resemblance between form and meaning - is a fundamental feature of human
languages, spoken and signed alike (Nuckolls 1999; Taub 2001; Perniss,
Thompson, & Vigliocco, 2010; Dingemanse et al., 2015; Perry, Perlman & Lupyan,
2015; Ortega, 2017). Iconicity is found across all levels of linguistic
structure, spanning discourse, grammar, morphology, lexicon, phonology and
phonetics, and even orthography. It is found in the prosody of speech and sign
and in the gestures that accompany linguistic behaviour.

While experimental research on iconicity in speech has long favoured the study
of pseudowords like bouba and kiki, a growing body of experimental research
shows that iconicity plays an active role in a number of basic language
processes, cutting across cognition, development, cultural and biological
evolution. The special issue aims to feature some of the most exciting new
experimental research on the many forms, functions, and timescales of
iconicity in human language.

- Dingemanse, M., Blasi, D.E., Lupyan, G., Christiansen, M.H., & Monaghan, P.
(2015). Arbitrariness, iconicity, and systematicity in language. Trends in
Cognitive Sciences, 19, 603-615.
- Nuckolls, J.B. (1999). The case for sound symbolism. Annual Review of
Anthropology, 28, 255-282.
- Ortega, Gerardo. ''Iconicity and Sign Lexical Acquisition: A Review.''
Frontiers in Psychology 8 (2017). https://doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2017.01280.
- Perniss, P., Thompson, R.L., & Vigliocco, G. (2010). Iconicity as a general
property of language: Evidence from spoken and signed languages. Frontiers in
Psychology, 1, 227.
- Perry, L.K., Perlman, M. & Lupyan, G. (2015). Iconicity in English and
Spanish and its relation to lexical category and age of acquisition. PLoS ONE,
10, e0137147.
- Taub, S. (2001). Language from the body: Iconicity and metaphor in American
Sign Language. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.

Special issue editors
Marcus Perlman, University of Birmingham
Pamela Perniss, University of Brighton
Mark Dingemanse, Max Planck Institute for Psycholinguistics

How to submit
If you would like to contribute, please email us an 800-1000-word abstract by
1 April, 2018. Abstracts should be sent to Marcus Perlman
(m.perlman at bham.ac.uk). We will return a decision on your abstract by 15
April, and first submissions will be due on 15th August. Manuscripts will be
submitted through the Language and Cognition submission interface. We aim to
put out the complete issue by the beginning of 2019. Notably, submissions that
proceed faster can appear online first.




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